cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. we have some breaking news for you. i m jake tapper. moments ago, we learned there is a settlement a settlement in the high stakes trial between dominion voting systems and fox dominion was suing fox for $1.6 billion, saying that the network showed complete and utter disregard for truth and facts and accuracy. when they allowed guests and hosts to push false conspiracy theories that the 2020 election had been stolen from donald trump. cnn s oliver darcy is outside the courthouse in delaware. oliver. what do we know about the settlement? we know right now. the judge just announced actually moments ago, jake that this case has been settled out of court. we don t know any details about what happened. but there was this unexplained two hour delay in court proceedings. this settlement really comes right before the clock struck struck midnight jake opening statements were set to begin at 1 30. they did not as scheduled, and there was an unexp
Fact checker later on a different bride. catherine some point in the future. try to say well, actually, here s an alternate reality or the truth, as many of us know it. that doesn t mean you didn t either earlier, defame someone, so this is what happens and many, many trials across the country all the time that once the reality of a jury of 12 deciding the fate to the tune of, well a billion or more in this case, suddenly the party say, you know what? let s be more reasonable. ellie um, there s so fox does this not infrequently. they paid tens of millions of dollars when it came to settling sexual harassment and assault lawsuits reportedly against bill o. reilly there was a big lawsuit being threatened, or at least some sort of out of state settled out of court settlement was reached with the family of seth rich. and a lot of the details of those settlements. we just do not know the public does not know. will we learn the details of this settlement? if